ITV Be

steveon

ITV Be is due to launch on Oct 8.
It is currently running test signals does anyone know if it will be fta or another scrambled channel??

It can be added using the following

10758.00
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22000
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More details about the channel here

http://www.itv.com/be

mikeym

On the website it says the channel is Free To Air.

lertsnim

It's certainly FTA now anyway

dublinman1990

It must be the one with SID label 10075 written on it.

I just see The Real Housewives of New York is on now when I briefly flicked on it for about a minute.

fryup

another waste of space channel by the looks of it

wall to wall repeats....just another excuse for raising advertising revenue

STG.Otaku

"The Only Way is Essex is moving to our brand new channel ITVBe."

Let's hope ITVBe is scrambled then. :pac:

Harry Palmr

ITV Be must be the most pointless launch since the last most pointless launch. Its what ITV 2 is already doing.

mackersdublin

mikeym wrote: »

On the website it says the channel is Free To Air.

ITVBe will be on Freesat from 8th Oct http://www.a516digital.com/2014/07/itvbe-sets-october-launch-date.html so defo FTA

lawred2

what on earth are these monstrosities?

lawred2

as far as I can tell; ITVBe is another channel to add to the list of channels I don't watch

It won't be on the Irish EPG anyway!

lertsnim

zorro2566 wrote: »

It won't be on the Irish EPG anyway!

Great news.

steveon

Itv replied to an email confirming it is indeed fta....although It wont be one I'd ever watch its still one many of the ladies out there will enjoy and so how bad...if it keeps em happy.

corm500

Another channel (albeit one that I have no interest in) that will not be available to Skys Irish viewers. Sooner the Irish Sky customers move to Saorview/Freesat the better.

steveon

corm500 wrote: »

Another channel (albeit one that I have no interest in) that will not be available to Skys Irish viewers. Sooner the Irish Sky customers move to Saorview/Freesat the better.

It can be added to the other channels listings, i doubt many will watch it let alone record it.

radiowaves

corm500 wrote: »

Another channel (albeit one that I have no interest in) that will not be available to Skys Irish viewers. Sooner the Irish Sky customers move to Saorview/Freesat the better.

Strange logic.

How many channels that are available to Irish Sky viewers can be received on Saorview/Freesat equipment?

Amd why "sooner....the better"? What difference does it make to you?

corm500

radiowaves wrote: »

Strange logic.

How many channels that are available to Irish Sky viewers can be received on Saorview/Freesat equipment?

Amd why "sooner....the better"? What difference does it make to you?

I think the more interesting question is how many channels that are freely available on Saorview / Freesat are not available on the Irish Sky epg? My logic is the sooner that Irish Sky subscribers cop on and realise they are being fleeced for a service that is inferior to their uk counterparts and hit Sky where it hurts (in the pocket) then the sooner Sky will be forced to upgrade their Irish service to the UK standard. A reasonable logic I think

radiowaves

corm500 wrote: »

I think the more interesting question is how many channels that are freely available on Saorview / Freesat are not available on the Irish Sky epg? My logic is the sooner that Irish Sky subscribers cop on and realise they are being fleeced for a service that is inferior to their uk counterparts and hit Sky where it hurts (in the pocket) then the sooner Sky will be forced to upgrade their Irish service to the UK standard. A reasonable logic I think

Again, if you're talking sheer weight of numbers I'm afraid Sky wins by a very huge number.

Sky cannot do anything about channels that do not want to pay to be on the Irish EPG (or can't due to programming rights restrictions).

Your anger should be aimed at them and not at Sky.

NIMAN

The ITV channels are generally rubbish, and this is just another to add to the muck.

corm500

radiowaves wrote: »

Again, if you're talking sheer weight of numbers I'm afraid Sky wins by a very huge number.

Sky cannot do anything about channels that do not want to pay to be on the Irish EPG (or can't due to programming rights restrictions).

Your anger should be aimed at them and not at Sky.

That's sounds pretty much like you are reading the standard Sky line there.
If I remember correctly Rte do not pay for Sky carriage. Sky made a commercial descision to carry the Irish stations. If people stop paying for the inferior offering then Sky will make a commercial decision to carry for example BBC 3 Bbc4 Rte1 and C4 in Hd for a start

radiowaves

corm500 wrote: »

That's sounds pretty much like you are reading the standard Sky line there.
If I remember correctly Rte do not pay for Sky carriage. Sky made a commercial descision to carry the Irish stations. If people stop paying for the inferior offering then Sky will make a commercial decision to carry for example BBC 3 Bbc4 Rte1 and C4 in Hd for a start

I'm not sure what you mean by "standard Sky line". I'm giving the facts - if they coincide with the "standard Sky line" then that's the way it is.

RTE are only carried in Ireland so your point is moot - in fact it's making the exact same point as I am because programming rights restrictions prevent RTÉ from appearing on British Sky boxes.

And, once again, it is up to BBC Worldwide (in the example of BBC Three & Four) and Channel 4 to make their offerings available on the Irish EPG - I'm really not sure what part of that is difficult to comprehend.

Your anger is misplaced.

corm500

radiowaves wrote: »

I'm not sure what you mean by "standard Sky line". I'm giving the facts - if they coincide with the "standard Sky line" then that's the way it is.

RTE are only carried in Ireland so your point is moot - in fact it's making the exact same point as I am because programming rights restrictions prevent RTÉ from appearing on British Sky boxes.

And, once again, it is up to BBC Worldwide (in the example of BBC Three & Four) and Channel 4 to make their offerings available on the Irish EPG - I'm really not sure what part of that is difficult to comprehend.

Your anger is misplaced.

Oh ok so BBC worldwide pay for placement on the Irish EPG? Thats a surprise I dont think UK licence payers would be too happy with that. Again I thought Sky made a commercial decision in paying for BBC to be on the Irish EPG.
See where I am going with this?
I will explain: Sky will do nothing about increasing the offering to Sky Ireland viewers until they see it as being sound commercially to do it, for example if enough customers cancel their subsciption. Im making this argument as simple as I can really.

jca

Can I ask a question here? Who decides what channels are on the sky epg? Is it Sky or the channel themselves? Some say that the reason there are no itv channels on the epg is down to TV3.

Gonzo

This is one channel I won't ever add to 'other channels', not sure why Itv want to launch it since the content was all on Itv2 anyway.

muffler

jca wrote: »

Can I ask a question here? Who decides what channels are on the sky epg? Is it Sky or the channel themselves? Some say that the reason there are no itv channels on the epg is down to TV3.

I queried this just a couple of months ago with ITV and the following is their last email which pretty much explains why certain channels are not carried by Sky......

Dear muffler,

Thank you for contacting ITV once again regarding the availability of our channels in Ireland. As you note, ITV's digital channels are available to UPC subscribers which is an Irish cable TV company, but are not available to subscribers of Sky in Ireland.

European legislation (specifically the Cable and Satellite Directive 93/83/EEC) means we can easily license our TV channels to satellite and cable operators in other European countries if they have their 'principal operations' in that country, which is the case with UPC. Unfortunately in the case of Sky, its 'principal operations' are based in the UK, so we are unable to rely on this Directive to license our channels. Consequently in order to permit Sky Ireland to broadcast the ITV channels, we would need to secure the explicit agreement of each of the thousands of rightsholders in all the programmes we show. Clearly this would be an extremely challenging and costly exercise, which we have hitherto been unable to justify on economic grounds.

I appreciate this is frustrating for Sky subscribers such as yourself, and rest assured we are exploring opportunities and alternative ways for more homes in Ireland to access ITV's digital channels in the future.

I hope the above information helps to explain the situation. Please do not hesitate to get in touch if there is anything else I can assist with in the future.

Once again, thank you for taking the time to contact ITV Viewer Services.

Kind regards,

radiowaves

corm500 wrote: »

Oh ok so BBC worldwide pay for placement on the Irish EPG? Thats a surprise I dont think UK licence payers would be too happy with that. Again I thought Sky made a commercial decision in paying for BBC to be on the Irish EPG.
See where I am going with this?
I will explain: Sky will do nothing about increasing the offering to Sky Ireland viewers until they see it as being sound commercially to do it, for example if enough customers cancel their subsciption. Im making this argument as simple as I can really.

BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm of the BBC - nothing to do with licence fee money

You can make your argument as simple as you like but that won't pay for cross-territory programming rights.

Sky haven't done it with Irish TV for British viewers, why do you expect them to do it the other way round?

Dave..M

Interesting response from ITV, I wonder will the recent nominal change of provider from SKY UK to SKY Ireland have any impact on SKY's ability to show these channels.

gordongekko

What does the be in itvbe stand for?

muffler

Dave..M wrote: »

Interesting response from ITV, I wonder will the recent nominal change of provider from SKY UK to SKY Ireland have any impact on SKY's ability to show these channels.

Yeah, I had thought about that myself. The date on that email was 7 July 2014 and it was some weeks after this when Sky announced the setting up of their company in Ireland. But then again the point they raised regarding getting consent from numerous rightsholders would still put a dampener on things.

Dave..M

muffler wrote: »

Yeah, I had thought about that myself. The date on that email was 7 July 2014 and it was some weeks after this when Sky announced the setting up of their company in Ireland. But then again the point they raised regarding getting consent from numerous rightsholders would still put a dampener on things.

their email seems to indicate that was because SKY's operations were mainly in the UK, this new SKY Ireland's operations will presumably be fully ROI similar to UPC Ireland's so perhaps they won't need to, I guess time will tell....,,

radiowaves

Dave..M wrote: »

their email seems to indicate that was because SKY's operations were mainly in the UK, this new SKY Ireland's operations will presumably be fully ROI similar to UPC Ireland's so perhaps they won't need to, I guess time will tell....,,

Well the email quoted actually contradicts itself in that regard.

Cable companies have traditionally been able to carry operations from neighbouring countries based on overspill.

This doesn't apply to satellite.

The Cush

radiowaves wrote: »

Cable companies have traditionally been able to carry operations from neighbouring countries based on overspill.

Not since the 1993 Directive became law which covered the issue of copyrighted programming on satellite and cable systems.

Harry Palmr

Launches on 118 (Freesat), ITV4+1 booted down to 155 on Freesat.

jca

It's 179 on the trick epg.. Looks to be dire almost as bad as E!

lertsnim

jca wrote: »

It's 179 on the trick epg.

On the what?

branners69

gordongekko wrote: »

What does the be in itvbe stand for?

ITV B'ell E'nd! You would have to be one to watch the sh1t they will be broadcasting!

Oscarziggy

lertsnim wrote: »

On the what?

Think lertsnim was referering to this ?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056353483

Regards

lertsnim

Oscarziggy wrote: »

Think lertsnim was referering to this ?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056353483

Regards

So the UK EPG number then.

_John C

gordongekko wrote: »

What does the be in itvbe stand for?

It stands for "Bull Excrement"

Oscarziggy

lertsnim wrote: »

So the UK EPG number then.

Yes just checked.....promo running.
Regards

dublinman1990

It is a black tie event for the launch of ITVBe tonight.

I am only watching this for only a few minutes because for the next 2 hours until 9pm the people in the dreaded reality TV shows are being featured in the launch event. This launch night event looks definitely pre-recorded which is also an even bigger disappointment for the channel.

The only guest I know who is there now is Brian McFadden who was there with his girlfriend whose name I don't know. The other couple who were on with them, I haven't the faintest clue in who they are.

dublinman1990

dublinman1990 wrote: »

It is a black tie event for the launch of ITVBe tonight.

I am only watching this for only a few minutes because for the next 2 hours until 9pm the people in the dreaded reality TV shows are being featured in the launch event. This launch night event looks definitely pre-recorded which is also an even bigger disappointment for the channel.

The only guest I know who is there now is Brian McFadden who was there with his girlfriend whose name I don't know. The other couple who were on with them, I haven't the faintest clue in who they are.

Is it on the Irish sky epg of just through the other channels feature?

dublinman1990

zorro2566 wrote: »

Is it on the Irish sky epg of just through the other channels feature?

As you said earlier in the thread it is on other channels. Did you not read your earlier post?

dxhound2005

dublinman1990 wrote: »

It is a black tie event for the launch of ITVBe tonight.

I am only watching this for only a few minutes because for the next 2 hours until 9pm the people in the dreaded reality TV shows are being featured in the launch event. This launch night event looks definitely pre-recorded which is also an even bigger disappointment for the channel.

The only guest I know who is there now is Brian McFadden who was there with his girlfriend whose name I don't know. The other couple who were on with them, I haven't the faintest clue in who they are.

No prerecorded I don't think. There is a live feed on the satellite at 24.5 West, good signal here.



Intelsat 905 (24.5°W)

Frequency: 10997 - Pol: H - SR: 7200 - FEC: 3/4

Category: Spectacle

Transmitted in: MPEG-2 4:2:0 (PAL)

Comments: Launch of ITV Be (Only Way is Essex Ibiza) S2HD

dublinman1990

dublinman1990 wrote: »

As you said earlier in the thread it is on other channels. Did you not read your earlier post?

Things may have changed at the launch!

muffler

zorro2566 wrote: »

Things may have changed at the launch!

A very quick edit there zorro

jca

Oscarziggy wrote: »

Think lertsnim was referering to this ?
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056353483

Regards

I was.

Oscarziggy

jca wrote: »

I was.

Sorry jca I got your user name mixed up !!

Regards

dublinman1990

zorro2566 wrote: »

Things may have changed at the launch!

Well Fine then. :mad:

I should have said that I don't use Sky at all for my TV so I can't give you a specific answer.

jca

Oscarziggy wrote: »

Sorry jca I got your user name mixed up !!

Regards

No worries, unfortunately sky have rumbled the nerds and updated us into oblivion:(:(

icdg

branners69 can take a warning for his post, everyone else, please be civil to each other.